295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

From puberty on, I felt like me and my friends were always running. From abusive dads, men on the streets, abusive boyfriends, or even from mean things men would say to us that got stuck in our heads. But running meant we thought we were worth saving for the right one.

Women didn’t want to be on the stage with other women because they didn’t want their bodies to be compared. They didn’t want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can’t do – and do that.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don’t want to focus on boring people.

Certain people are like ‘Oh, here come the Feminazis!’ You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like ‘You’re the man haters!’ We’re always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don’t know if being nice is my legacy.

I’m a very binary person in a bad way where it’s like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

People are actually having conversations about “Is this sexist?”

Gay marriage! That’s a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

I’m in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.